Key thinkers on the biggest security stories and trends in 2021
What a year 2021 has been. We’ve seen a number of high-profile issues across the cybersecurity sector, from supply chain attacks to critical infrastructure shutdowns. Going into 2022, many of these issues don’t show any sign of slowing.
While the world tentatively started to recover from the initial outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year the security industry had only just started to respond to the number of new threats caused by the changes to society, from healthcare-related phishing campaigns to attacks on vaccination rollouts.
This is without mentioning the whole host of non-coronavirus-related threats such as the ongoing infosec workforce diversity gap and cybercrime activity.
The Daily Swig has grilled industry experts on their biggest takeaways from 2021 – and what they predict for 2022.
Sins of the past, sins of the present
Cezary Cerekwicki, head of product security at Opera Software, the makers of Opera Web Browser
Looking at the 2021 editions of the MITRE CWE Top 25 and OWASP Top 10, we could say that little has changed compared to 2020. Memory safety issues known for decades continue to rank high.
The root cause for that is arguably the lack of fast memory-safe alternatives for C and C++ and its ‘speed trumps safety’ philosophy.
The web was born in turbulent circumstances and continues to be insecure by default for the sake of backward…
